❧ Description
One of the oldest pieces in the Luzzatto collection, dated 1287 by the colophon of its copyist Yitzḥak b. Pisante. The manuscript contains the Pentateuch, the five Megillot, and the Haftarot. Catalogue data: 248 leaves, large quarto, parchment, two columns of 25 lines, with some drawings in gold and colours. A precisely dated thirteenth-century Sephardic biblical manuscript is a piece of the highest order for codicology.
Provenance: 1 Acquisition by Samuel David Luzzatto, Padua 2 Isaia Luzzatto sale, 1869
Codicological notice — origin to be specified; copyist: Yitzḥak b. Pisante; script: Sephardic; leaves: 248 folios; dimensions: large quarto · parchment · 2 columns · drawings in gold and colours; old catalogues: Joseph Luzzatto Catalogue 1868 · no. 76; editorial status: to be confirmed.
— Source: Mémoires des Manuscrits Juifs du Moyen-Âge Maghrébin (MMJMM / Collectif GMPL), https://mmjmm.org/corpus/catalogue/to-locate-luzzatto-76.
